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While CIAs and other non-monetary enforcement tactics may not require a company to forfeit or pay funds directly to the government, their implementation and management can often be expensive and time consuming.

According to Matthew Boxer, chair of the Corporate Investigations and Integrity Practice at Lowenstein Sandler, regulators have grown increasingly aggressive with those punishments in recent years, in two different areas.

Because the Antitrust Division is aggressively enforcing the antitrust laws, firms should re-evaluate their interactions with competitors and strengthen their antitrust training and compliance programs.

In large corporations, like those in the Fortune 500, the legal and compliance departments have to learn to deal with these regulators in order to ensure that everything is in order and day-to-day business can continue on unimpeded.

The regulator and Sinclair have tentatively agreed to a settlement that divests some stations in the area that Allbritton and Sinclair shared, ensuring there is no communications or advertising monopoly in the region.